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Legal Roundup – 22 February 2013

Every couple of months, Rogier and I compile articles, book chapters, books and blog discussions which we think might be interesting for people doing research on issues relating to armed groups or non-international armed conflict more generally.

The selection for December 2012 and January/ February 2013 is found below. We have grouped the articles into categories for convenience, but please be aware that the grouping is ultimately quite arbitrary as many articles fit into more than one category.

Posts on the US Department of Justice White Paper on the “Lawfulness of a lethal operation directed against a U.S. cistizen who is a senior operational leader of Al-Qa’ida or an associated force” at Opinio Juris (here and here), EJILTalk (here and here), Lawfare (here), and ASIL Insights (here).

For previous Armed Groups and International Law legal roundups see here and here.